Letters to the Editor Friday

We moved to Effingham County some 16-plus years ago and have dealt with the liquor issue on numerous occasions. Every time you turn around it pops up its evil head again.

We were told the last time that it was over and it wouldn’t come up again. Who’s pushing for this in our county?

The facts have proven themselves over and over again and that is, it costs more to deal with the results of alcohol consumption than the county and businesses ever make profit from the sales of it.

When will we ever learn that if you play with snakes long enough you are going to get bit? Liquor is compared with a viper and look what it has done to family after family.

If you want to have access to free-flowing booze, how about moving back to Chatham County and let our county alone.

ROLAND DANN

Springfield

A lawyer who respected people and the law

The family, friends, community and members of the bar have suffered a loss with the passing of Clyde M. Thompson, Jr.

He was a man of true character with high moral standards and great respect for the law the he practiced, as well as for other people.

Clyde maintained his keen knowledge of the law and was a lawyer’s lawyer, willing and able to confer with and counsel his fellow practitioners. He has been and will be missed and remembered by all fortunate enough to have known him — as a good lawyer, a good man and a good friend.

RAMON SILVERMAN

Savannah

Editor’s note: Mr. Thompson was a frequent contributor of letters to the editor. His thoughtful missives will be missed.

Use correct terms in birth control debate

Much has been written regarding the federal mandate from the Health And Human Services Department pertaining to health insurance coverage for contraception, birth control, abortion and related services.

One common error often made is to include abortion as part of contraception or birth control, which it is not.

Contraception is defined as the prevention of conception/fertilization. Abortion, on the other hand, has a dictionary definition of “the inducing of premature delivery in order to destroy offspring.” The morning after pill is a chemical means of abortion.

The term birth control has a dictionary definition of “the control of births or of childbearing by deliberate measures to control or prevent conception.”

To add to the confusion, there are natural and artificial categories of birth control, and there are a variety of pregnancy terminations that include miscarriage and natural or usual birth as well as abortion; plus a fourth category of resolving medical emergencies such as ectopic pregnancies that occur in the fallopian tube.

Some have intentionally misused these terms in order to promote their agenda, while others have misused these terms unintentionally.

Progress in resolving both the abortion debate and the current preventative care debate on requirements established by the federal Health And Human Services Department, with a satisfactory agreement, will require a precision in language and an analysis using correct terminology and thoughtful logic.

BILL FARMER

Savannah

News vs. opinion

I totally agree with Allen Janacek’s opinion expressed in his Feb. 21 letter regarding the publishing of opinion columnist opinions on the Opinion page, so as to distinguish between real news and opinions.

The column by Larry Peterson, “Obama sitting pretty,” did not address the weaknesses of his administration. I, too, hope you alter your policy.

ROBERT MORRISSEY

Savannah

President’s to-do list before Nov. 6

The American people are ready to secure our rights back.

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter it. We demand the federal government start respecting the Constitution. Congress and the president must work together for the following:

• Work according to the Constitution.

• Repeal Obamacare. It is unconstitutional and will bankrupt the country.

• Repeal Dodd-Frank. This legislation also could bankrupt the country.

• Repeal S-365, the Budget Control Act which has many loopholes and gives too much authority to the president. Congress cannot stop debt ceiling increases.

• Pass HR 2560, the Cut, Cap & Balance Act of 2011. It would cut federal spending to 18 percent of the gross national product and pass a balanced budget amendment.

• Start drilling for our own oil and natural gas.

• Pass laws that take a common sense approach to the free market system. New small businesses and restarting manufacturing would mean permanent full-time jobs.

• Change the tax code to one that is fair and balanced.

Election Day is Nov. 6. We will vote out the president unless changes are made to correct the problems listed above.

ARTHUR BROSKA

Bluffton, S.C.

Going paperless doesn’t mean more trees

I would like to address a subject that I hear of almost every day — that is, people who want the world to go paperless, thinking that by doing so, the earth will have more trees.

That could not be farther from the truth. Many people are under the impression that when trees are cut for paper products, we are left with fewer trees. Paper mills are tree farmers. Just as peanut farmers and onion farmers have to replant, so do the paper mills. In fact, they plant two to every one that they cut.

Don’t worry about trees; they will grow back. Trees are a renewable resource. Technology is necessary for the advancement of society, but too many children and adults are addicted to electronic devices that sooner or later are going to break or be obsolete and end up in a garbage pile with plastics and rusty metals.

Slow down a little and try reading a book, magazine or the newspaper. You might enjoy it.

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Excellent letter Mr Broska and thank you for sending it in. Many of our rights have disappeared in the last three years among them the President now has the authority to order the military to arrest and detain a US citizen without communication or a trial. Sort of like North Korea does and Russia, Iraq did.